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Park rats?

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[Adam]
Posts: 1937 - Karma: 256
Never heard the term myself till this season. Don't mind it however. Has anyone been called a park rat before or is familiar with this name for those those of us that ride in the park?
Jun 21 2008 1:19AM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
a park rat would be someone who is always in the park, even on a pow day. if someone calls me a park rat i get pissed off.
Jun 21 2008 1:23AM
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Klick_2_klaim
Posts: 3396 - Karma: 25
the term makes me wanna eat cheese and do straight airs.
Jun 21 2008 4:15AM
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Aaaron.
Posts: 11817 - Karma: 903
i get pissed too.
people think cause i ski east, i must be a park rat.
i hardly spend any time in the parks (i ski PA......=/=
cause most of the time, you can get batter air off of the moguls and side ditches than half of the "jumps" in the park....
Jun 21 2008 9:27AM
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_._._
Posts: 77 - Karma: 13
you've never had park rats? stupid things burrow holes in your jumps and wreck landings, stupid pests

they sometimes eat through chairlift cable too, so be careful
Jun 21 2008 9:33AM
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gordie.
Posts: 2014 - Karma: 84
comonly used term round here
Jun 21 2008 9:40AM
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KravtZ
Posts: 6637 - Karma: 2,629
well then no offense ur park must be ablsolute shit cuase i ski on the east and my park is straight up skrillin mid winter its sick
Jun 21 2008 9:43AM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
wow that was kinda stupid
but when people call me a park rat i just go slay some moguls with them. (and im not in the park much fyi)
Jun 21 2008 9:44AM
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E.C.
Posts: 3211 - Karma: 319
im a park rat cause at my home mountain there is no pow or real moguls and plus the park is so sick
Jun 21 2008 10:31AM
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skiRay
Posts: 7558 - Karma: 926
if anyone calls me a park rat, they deserve to get knocked the fuck out.. i ski like 60% all mtn...
Jun 21 2008 10:42AM
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Fr33ski
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yeah word dude im always in the park unless i wanna practice riding switch down hill but otherwise im comstanly in the park even during summer skateboarding i get called a park rat im always there everyday
Jun 21 2008 11:04AM
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jason...
Posts: 9006 - Karma: 780
iv never been called one, if someone did call me a park rat id probs just laugh it off because well i only ski park unless theres pow, or on the rare occasion i just go do groomers and just mess around the whole way down them
Jun 21 2008 11:18AM
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sirskizalot
Posts: 4370 - Karma: 161
ive heard it lots but i dont think ive ever been called one
plus i wouldnt care if someone did call me one. they can think whatever they want
Jun 21 2008 12:16PM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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Have yoy heard of that cool new fad called punctuation? If not its great, have a go.
Jun 21 2008 12:20PM
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mccsteezy
Posts: 1170 - Karma: 38
park rats are the nature predator of the snow snake
Jun 21 2008 12:24PM
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marc_sncl
Posts: 612 - Karma: 16
it's even said in german
Jun 21 2008 12:52PM
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james44
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 578
fuckin park rat



im always in the park mafuckers, its just a normal run....wtih jumps.. so why would i not be there
exept pow days
Jun 21 2008 1:00PM
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Franny
Posts: 3980 - Karma: 77
I saw a rat in a park once. Not sure if that's relevant to this.
Jun 21 2008 1:09PM
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skiwoj
Posts: 2286 - Karma: 52
I ski park about 75% of the time I ski, I really only leave the park for a few cruising runs per day or on pow days, but I have absolutely no problem with it. Its how I have fun so I really don't care if people call me a park rat, but labeling someone as such is pretty dumb
Jun 21 2008 1:13PM
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bigwhite.steeze
Posts: 8227 - Karma: 1,030
unless theres mega pow...im in the park...im ashamed of it...

so i guess im a parkrat...

and powder parks pree fun guys
Jun 21 2008 1:32PM
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cfox
Posts: 2286 - Karma: 38
yea i never really went to the park all this season just on the more complicated terrain and stuff then i did go a few times on the last days and i was pretty decent i could orbit boxes and throw 3s and grab 1s so im going to try and focus mainly on park next year unless its a pow day
Jun 21 2008 2:13PM
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walcott
Posts: 319 - Karma: 39
yeah i saw kids hiking the rails on 10 inch day
Jun 21 2008 2:29PM
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BootySpunk.
Posts: 8148 - Karma: 84
When your mountain has an elevation of 400ft and the runs are a min long at most and you have an amazing park what else can you do?

But on the only "pow" day(1ft of new snow) in 5 years there was NO ONE in the park
Jun 21 2008 3:30PM
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dandougherty
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yeah same deal man
Jun 21 2008 3:55PM
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Black-Bandanna
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My dad alway calls me a park rat....but then I just throw up that rooster tail of snow at him.
Jun 21 2008 3:59PM
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E.C.
Posts: 3211 - Karma: 319
haha im in ontario there was one day we had like 2 fett of powder and i couldnt get to the hill i was so pissed all we have is park
Jun 21 2008 4:00PM
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.Capn.
Posts: 1454 - Karma: 152
When I used to live in MI, our best was a former landfill. Our park suck balls too, but I spent most my time there.
Jun 21 2008 4:04PM
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BootySpunk.
Posts: 8148 - Karma: 84
That sucks where do you ski?
Jun 21 2008 7:11PM
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[JP-of-SC]
Posts: 345 - Karma: 10
now take the midwest and divide the natural snowfall by about 5..

welcome to the southeast. I have been circumstantially forced into becoming a park rat.
Jun 21 2008 7:22PM
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pussymoneyweed
Posts: 2055 - Karma: 60
now now
thats whate we call a gaper
Jun 21 2008 7:26PM
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.Capn.
Posts: 1454 - Karma: 152
Nah I ski both about half the year and you guys get more snow, except places close to a great lake, but I feel your pain as the souteast seems to be gayper central.
Jun 21 2008 10:36PM
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Jwalk
Posts: 4647 - Karma: 134

in december and january when the snow is fresh im about 30 percent park in march and april when the snow is crap 90 percent park

Jun 22 2008 2:01AM
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[JP-of-SC]
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rednecks... all rednecks.. the mountains are even run by rednecks in North Carolina.
Jun 22 2008 2:47PM
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TimmyK
Posts: 779 - Karma: 15
we like to call all the chicks that hang out in the park watchin us all day park rats
Jun 22 2008 3:16PM
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K2skipunk
Posts: 2837 - Karma: 111
wats a park? my mountain sets up a shitty one starting, say, december, but it is never good, cuz when there is any new snow, the park crew is slayin pow turns. so pretty much we never have a park. only the little park was open on the last day of the season (april 31)
Jun 22 2008 3:26PM
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spudz
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< park rat all the way

why would anyone be ashamed.
Jun 22 2008 3:41PM
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ginty
Posts: 1073 - Karma: 163
im in the park everyday unless theres pow then i go shred trees
but everyday i get at least one run out of the park
Jun 22 2008 3:42PM
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spudz
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even on powder days im in the park. everythings soft and theres no good trees in NY
Jun 22 2008 4:31PM
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Malcolm
Posts: 15951 - Karma: 9,451

haha a hole in the ground. my home mountains got a quarrie taking up half the mountain

Jun 22 2008 5:26PM
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Proze
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From 9 am to 10 pm i lap the park 5 outta seven days till they close but i live in ny and thats all there is on my bump
Jun 22 2008 7:01PM
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tBatt
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but to your disbelief, gore has some of the best natural terrain in the northeast.

im in the park alot, but ocasionally i head up for a bump run. i almost never skip the park just to take a groomer all the way down, because over 1/2 the skiing to get from lift to park back to lift is like that.

and on pow days ill be in the park for maybe 3 runs?

unfortunately most of this is going to change when i get a job in park crew next year.
Jun 22 2008 7:04PM
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Kevski
Posts: 7056 - Karma: 2,785
The term has been around forever I think...
I'm definitely not a park rat, ski steeps and pow whenever it's good.
Doing a run through the park on a pow day is so much fun though, sliding boxes with inches of pow on top then landing in it is pretty amazing. Same when they don't groom the landings on those days, it's basically a BC booter.
Jun 22 2008 7:28PM
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ginty
Posts: 1073 - Karma: 163
word its epic as long as the in run is cool so you don't case which still isn't bad in the pow pow
Jun 22 2008 10:28PM
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skiRay
Posts: 7558 - Karma: 926
yeah i will never skip park/pipe going to the gondola (gore or whiteface) but you wont watch me in the park more than 2 times on a pow day. i just lap the little whiteface chair all day for the cloudsplitter glades. best trail ever. and bumps... i LOVE THEM!!
Jun 22 2008 10:37PM
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MrJesseHealy
Posts: 927 - Karma: 96
Hahahahahahaha, mad funny.
Jun 22 2008 10:39PM
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TheButterHashira
Posts: 9691 - Karma: 1,702
I have been called that once. I was setting up a rail or something and a snowboarder called me and my friends park rats.
Jun 22 2008 10:41PM
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SteezyMcDizzle
Posts: 514 - Karma: 31
I am definitely a park rat. I've been hiking park on many a powder day. I know that might be hard for most people to understand, but its true.
Jun 22 2008 10:54PM
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snowboardersrule
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 15
i like be labeled that cuz when u blow by someone on a gnarly line they are shocked that they just got shown up by a "park rat".
Jun 23 2008 1:40AM
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Ryanvdonk
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i dont really care when im called that, cause i know i can ski better than the people who typically say it negatively, since they're shredding the gnar 2 inches, lol.
Jun 23 2008 1:50AM
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